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Steve Watkins

. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Table 3. Ethics Case #1 Smith and Jones work in an experimental testing laboratory for Acme Corp. Smith has been the main testing engineer for five years and is up for promotion to laboratory supervisor (includes the testing laboratory and several other laboratories). Jones is being trained as a potential replacement as the testing engineer. The laboratories division supervisor is Brown who is retiring soon

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Scott Koziol; Christian Tulowiecki; John DiCecco; Jason Gaudette

, MATLAB-AVR interface, SPI communication, Digital to Analog Converter(DAC) use and basic theory, Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) use and basic theory, and an in-troduction to Neuromorphic engineering. “Neuromorphic” is the name given to an interdiscipli-nary field which combines concepts from neuroscience, engineering, computer science, and biol-ogy. A Neuromorphic investigator’s goal is to design systems based on biological nervous sys-tems. The students in this class will apply their newly learned microcontroller skills to controland read from a brain inspired analog neuron circuit.KeywordsMicrocontroller, Education, Neuromorphic, LaboratoryIntroductionThis paper describes laboratory experiments which accompany the lecture portion of a course

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Magdalena Grohman; Eun Ah Lee; Nicholas Gans; Marco Tacca; Matthew Brown

ConferenceAbstractThe study aimed at investigating: the group dynamics underlying ethical decision-making inSenior Design Project (SDP) teams and research labs, and the role of ethics experts in the ethicaldecision-making. Using cognitive ethnography, we analyzed research activities in engineeringresearch laboratories, and SDP teams’ discussions about ethics issues, with or without thepresence of ethics experts. We found that student teams demonstrated multi-layeredunderstanding of engineering ethics: explicit and implicit. Those two types of understandingmanifested themselves differently across SDP teams. At the explicit level, SDP teams understoodtheir technical responsibility and practical work ethics, but at the same time rarely showedappreciation for

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John Hansen; Chengzhu Yu

Processing Laboratory and continues to direct research activities in CRSS at UTDallas.Lakshmish KaushikHe is a PhD candidate at Center for Robust Speech Systems at The University of Texas at Dallas.His research interests include Speech Recognition, Keyword Spotting, Sentiment in audio,Behavioral Informatics.Chengzhu YuHe is a PhD candidate at Center for Robust Speech Systems at The University of Texas at Dallas.His research interests include Speech Diarization Speaker Identification and analysis.Abhijeet SangwanHe earned his Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering fromVisveswaraiah Technological University (VTU), Bangalore, India, in 2002. He earned his Mastersand Ph.D. degrees from Concordia University, Canada and The

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Tariq Khraishi

,even whole degrees, on-line. A lot of them offer graduate courses and programs online. Some,even at the high-school level, are offering online degrees.LaMeres and Plumb (2014) found out that converting undergraduate digital circuits to onlinedelivery is as effective as in-classroom offerings. They even found the same result for anundergraduate digital systems laboratory using a remote lab approach. Reid (2006) in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at IUPUI studied the conversionof two courses (Digital Fundamentals and C++ programming) has gradually changed twocourses from a traditional lecture / laboratory format to an online format. They found that studentsuccess was comparable to success in a traditional format

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Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

specifically, hypothesis-driven orfundamental research is generally not conducted or encouraged to a large extent as part the degree.Such a practice is not because engineering technology students do not have the aptitude forconducting research, but rather the constraints of coursework and the associated laboratory practicelargely prohibits it from a time/resource standpoint. Tackling a research problem as a high-impactlearning experience will be especially beneficial to engineering technology students since many ofthe solutions that they are tasked to seek out as part of their normal job responsibilities involve theactivities of inquiry, hypothesizing, reasoning, etc., in other words, essential components of research.This paper is an exploration of

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Diana Easton

consulting firm.Stephen A. Szygenda, PhD. Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Southern MethodistUniversity (SMU)Dr. Szygenda was formerly the Dean of the Engineering School at SMU and The University ofAlabama – Birmingham; and was the Chairman of the ECE Department at The University ofTexas – Austin. In industry, Dr. Szygenda served as President of COMSAT General IntegratedSystems, The Rubicon Group, and Comprehensive Computing Systems and Services; and was aMember Of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering

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Luis Martinez Medellin; Edward Pines; Patricia Sullivan; Arthur Cox; Motoko Furuhashi

Educationprinters, microcontrollers such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi are also fairly popular. As thecomplexity of projects increase, there may be a need for items like CNC machines and lasercutters that may not be available in all university makerspaces Such equipment may, however, beavailable within specialized laboratories and/or shops within the institution.BackgroundThe Aggie Innovation Space (AIS) is a college-based maker space facility at New Mexico StateUniversity originally established as a pathfinder project by engineering faculty participating inthe cohort-based Pathways to Innovation project led by Stanford University and VentureWelland funded by the National Science Foundation. Following several iterations of managementmodels, the AIS has

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Jun-Ing Ker

(ATMega328) microcontroller Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferencePrototype development is supported by classrooms and laboratories equipped with hand tools,machine tools, test equipment, and a stock of sensors compatible with their microcontroller.Engineering fundamentals are introduced on a just-in-time basis to provide the knowledgerequired to complete the projects. The Integrated Engineering Curriculum is composed of threecourses in series: Engineering

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Roy Issa; Kenneth R. Leitch; Byungik Chang P.E.

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Pranav Bhounsule; Deborah Chaney; Lorena Claeys; Randall D. Manteufel

going. Also, because of cancelled meetings, some students could not complete the 10hrs and/or 10 visits. But we evaluated these students on case by case basis, giving them full credit for this part of the rubric.Acknowledgements:The authors would like to thank Brian Halderman, Program Director, Center for CivicEngagement for all the logistics support; Christopher von Brecht, the teaching assistant for thecourse for helping with the laboratories. This research was supported by NSF grant 1566463 toPAB and US Dept. of Education grant to LC.References[1] US Department of Education,Hispanics and STEM education,http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/list/hispanic-initiative/stem-factsheet.pdf[2] Passel, J.S. and Cohn D. US population